A Simple Mistake Could Cause You Priceless Headaches

Posted by admin in Wordpress Tips, Word... | 01.09.2010 - 5:14 pm

Before you read ahead, the problems that occurred to cause me headaches was partially my own mistake. However, I have not fully investigated other causes and will update the post once I get the chance to fully investigate the issue.
As a developer it is always easy to overlook minor things, some of them may not cause you much headaches, but some of them could eventually build up to give you nightmares because they are hard to spot.
Before I go ahead, please take a look at the screenshot below.

If you just saw a console with some SQL queries, let me point you to two big problems in the above screenshot.

The total rows in the table wp_postmeta (which holds meta info for posts) is more than 10 million, 10140712 to be precise.
The total number of rows in wp_postmeta without post_id is again more than 10 million, 10113548 to be precise.

To tell […]

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    Does It Matter If I Use 1 Plugin Or 100s Of Them?

    Posted by admin in Wordpress Tips, Word... | 06.20.2009 - 9:40 am

    One of my friends recently asked me a question whether using too many plugins made any difference on how his blog worked and performed, I thought it best to give that answer to a broader audience, so here goes.
    Does It Matter If You Use 1 or 100s of Plugins?
    The answer is yes, it does matter, each and every plugin you use has to be processed before an actual page is generated, so all the plugin files are compiled in order to get the intended output.
    This may in the end not actually make a big difference in your blogs load time, however it may eventually slow it down a little bit.
    Do Plugins Add Overhead To Your Site?
    Yes at times they do add overhead to your site, for example quite recently I was using a plugin that added 180Kbs of JavaScript code to each and every page on the site, however that […]

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